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There's a lot to explore. Oceans cover nearly three-quarters of the planet's surface--336 million cu. mi. of water that reaches an average depth of 2.3 miles. The sea's intricate food webs support more life by weight and a greater diversity of animals than any other ecosystem, from sulfur-eating bacteria clustered around deep-sea vents to fish that light up like New York City's Times Square billboards to lure their prey. Somewhere below there even lurks the last certified sea monster left from pre-scientific times: the 64-ft.-long giant squid...
...that final week, the Northern armies had encountered little ARVN resistance. A unit commanded by General Ly Tong Ba did put up a fierce fight at Cu Chi, about 12 miles from Saigon, through the night of April 28 and on into the afternoon of the 29th. But, finding his position untenable, Ba decided on a fighting retreat to Hoc Mon, a bit closer to Saigon. "I bring my staff with me, working, fighting," says Ba. "Oh, the bullets just...
...stand at Cu Chi was a model of lionheartedness compared with what the NVA columns entering Saigon proper found on April 30. The South Vietnamese soldiers confronting them did not just flee; they threw away everything that could identify them as soldiers and tried to melt into the general population. Bui Tin, an NVA colonel and journalist, says he spent that last morning "with one of our units taking a fortress that had been held by a South Vietnamese division. All the South Vietnamese soldiers who had fled had abandoned their uniforms. Everywhere you looked on the road, they...
Besides the prospect of a job for Barry Diller, one of the great benefits of the information superhighway is supposed to be interactive television. Now programmers at Cornell University have taken a step toward making two-way TV a reality. Thanks to software dubbed "CU-SeeMe," Internet users can tap into live sound-and-image transmissions with their computers. Better yet, users with video cameras can actually exchange TV images with fellow networkers...
...befits what is still an infant medium, CU-SeeMe's performance is a little sluggish on most Net links -- the black-and-white images are akin to something you might see in a nickelodeon -- but capabilities are improving quickly. Viewing choices are limited by the fact that right now there are only a few dozen Net sites, most of them academic, with CU-SeeMe capability. Browsers might end up staring at an empty physics lab in Norway or a blank chalkboard in Israel. But already CU-SeeMe promises low-cost video conferencing for students, journalists and the dateless. Using...